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Georg Hähn

Personal Information

21.04.1998, Leipzig, Germany

github.com/georghaehn
twitter.com/georghaehn

Skills

Fieldwork

experience in experiment development
extensive sampling experience (arthropods, leaves & leaf-litter, soil)

Labwork

chemical leaf trait analyses
soil respiration

Computational

R for data management & statistical analyses (advanced)
\(\LaTeX\) (intermediate)
Git (intermediate)
Unix (basic)
MS Office (advanced)

Language

German (native)
English (fluent, TOEFL 12.2022)
Latin (basic knowledge)

Driver`s licence

Car
Motorcycle
Tractor (up to 40\(\frac{km}{h}\))

Disclaimer

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Georg J. A. Hähn

Biologist (M.Sc.)

Education

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Master of Science: Biology (ECTS: A, CGPA: 3.9)

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2022-09 - 2020-10

Courses:
- Spatial Ecology and Modeling
- Nature Conservation
- Field Ecology

Internships (6 weeks):
- Specimen and Phylogeny research of the genus Melica
- Modeling approaches on temperature buffering in subtropical forests

Thesis: Comparison of the global distribution of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Supervision by Prof. Helge Bruelheide and Prof. Francesco Sabatini at iDiv.

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Bachelor of Science: Biology (ECTS: C, CGPA: 2.6)

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2020-10 - 2016-10

Thesis: Litter quality and tree species richness effects on litter decomposition in subtropical forest. Supervision by Prof. Nico Eisenhauer and Dr. Remy Beugnon at iDiv.

Gymnasium Brandis

Abitur (general qualification for university entrance)

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2016-06 - 2008-08

Work Experience

Research Assistant (80h/month)

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Halle (Saale)

Current - 2022-10

  • Database curator of sPlot
  • Recruiting and preparation of new datasets for the database
  • Classification of vegetation types

Research Assistant (60h/month)

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Halle (Saale)

2022-09 - 2022-03

  • Database curator of sPlot
  • Recruiting and preparation of new datasets for the database

Student Research Assistant (50h/month)

Leipzig University (iDiv)

Leipzig

2022-01 - 2021-07

Research Assistant (53h/month)

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Halle (Saale)

2021-06 - 2020-10

  • Database curator of sPlot
  • Digitalization of vegetation relevees

Student Research Assistant (80h/month)

Leipzig University

Xingangshan, China

2019-12 - 2019-09

  • Field and lab assistant
  • Leaf litter decomposition experiment in a subtropical forest plantation BEF China

Research Assistant (40h/month)

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Xingangshan, China

2019-06 - 2018-08

  • Field assistant with three field trips of two months
  • Terrestrial laserscanning to calculate tree-crown-interaction
  • Preparing of a leaf litter decomposition experiment
  • Insect collection and leaf-insect-damage categorization

Teaching Experience

Introduction to R and RMarkdown

One full day course: introduction to \(dplyr\), \(ggplot\) & \(\LaTeX\).

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2021

Introduction to R

One full day course: introduction to \(tidyverse\) and the native pipe operator.

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2023

Creating website and CV from R

In this two days course, I teach the basics how to create a website and a CV using RStudio IDE. Introducing the programming backbone including basics of \(html\) and \(LaTeX\) coding.

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2023

Scientific references

Prof. Helge Bruelheide

Supervisor: Master thesis & current employment
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

+49 345 5526222

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Prof. Francesco Maria Sabatini

Supervisor: Master thesis & former employment
Università Di Bologna

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Dr. Remy Beugnon

Supervisor: Bachelor thesis & former employment
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

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Publications

Rémy Beugnon, Nico Eisenhauer, Helge Bruelheide, Andréa Davrinche, Jianqing Du, Sylvia Haider, Georg Hähn, Mariem Saadani, Bala Singavarapu, Marie Sünnemann, Lise Thouvenot, Tesfaye Wubet, Kai Xue & Simone Cesarz. Tree diversity effects on litter decomposition are mediated by litterfall and microbial processes. (Accepted at OIKOS)

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Francesco M. Sabatini, Georg Hähn, Karina Speziale, Ana María Cingolani, Gabriella Damasceno & Helge Bruelheide. Vegetation of Southern Patagonia in the 70s - Digitalization of a gray literature dataset as a monitoring baseline in a chnaging world. (submitted)

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Florian Schnabel, Rémy Beugnon, Yang Bo, Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Maria Dolores Perles Garcia, Georg Hähn, Werner Härdtle, Yuanyuan Huang, Matthias Kunz, Xiaojuan Liu, Nadia Cristina Castro Izaguirre, Pascal A. Niklaus, Goddert von Oheimb, Ronny Richter, Bernhard Schmid, Stefan Trogisch, Christian Wirth, Keping Ma & Helge Bruelheide. Tree diversity increases forest temperature buffering. (in preparation)

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Georg Hähn, Francesco M. Sabatini, Gabriella Damasceno, … & Helge Bruelheide. The distribution patterns of functional and phylogenetic diversity in vascular plant communities. (in preparation)